Joel S.

@joelhs.bsky.social

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Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social‬. He/Him/הוא/ער

"11. Of what use are your many sacrifices to Me? says the Lord. I am sated with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fattened cattle; and the blood of bulls and sheep and hegoats I do not want. 12. When you come to appear before Me, who requested this of you, to trample My courts? 13. You shall no longer bring vain meal-offerings, it is smoke of abomination to Me; New Moons and Sabbaths, calling convocations, I cannot [bear] iniquity with assembly. 14. Your New Moons and your appointed seasons My soul hates, they are a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing [them]. 15. And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you, even when you pray at length, I do not hear; your hands are full of blood. 16. Wash, cleanse yourselves, remove the evil of your deeds from before My eyes, cease to do evil. 17. Learn to do good, seek justice, strengthen the robbed, perform justice for the orphan, plead the case of the widow."
"Researchers blame DEI for fast decline in Canadian goodwill for Jews, Israel Such programs are among the reasons Canadians' views are changing, according to the authors of Canadian Jewish Barometer 2026"
Tweet from Thomas Massie: "True, and these ads were bought by Tel Aviv born Miriam Adelson."
"In his recent podcast appearance, Mr. Vance did not entertain all of the ideas about Israeli influence suggested by Mr. Rogan. Mr. Vance pushed back when Mr. Rogan raised an unfounded theory that the Epstein files had been used to blackmail the Trump administration into going to war. The vice president also cast himself as a “reasonable moderate” in the debate over Israel’s relationship with the United States, expressing confusion over why “many people” have accused him of being antisemitic. “I’ve never heard a good compelling argument for why I am an antisemite, even though I’ve been accused of being an antisemite by many people,” he said."
"During the interview, Cain also slammed Springsteen over one of his biggest hits. “You know, you were ‘Born in the USA,’ weren’t you, dude? So act like it,” he said. “But even that song, if you look at the lyrics, I mean, it’s a kind of a diss to our country.”"
"Chang has also taken to recording most of her first dates, usually with Granola. She puts her phone out on the table or her chair and then once the date is through, she has the feed automatically sent to Anthropic’s Claude to report back on how she did. “Can I be more engaging and empathetic?” she says she might ask Claude. “What are the percentages of me talking versus them talking?”"
"In his recent podcast appearance, Mr. Vance did not entertain all of the ideas about Israeli influence suggested by Mr. Rogan. Mr. Vance pushed back when Mr. Rogan raised an unfounded theory that the Epstein files had been used to blackmail the Trump administration into going to war. The vice president also cast himself as a “reasonable moderate” in the debate over Israel’s relationship with the United States, expressing confusion over why “many people” have accused him of being antisemitic. “I’ve never heard a good compelling argument for why I am an antisemite, even though I’ve been accused of being an antisemite by many people,” he said."
Tweet from Tyler Austin Harper: "Increasingly, academics—particularly humanists—remind me of addicts who refuse to admit they have a problem: they’ve lost their spouse and kids, no one trusts them anymore, but they think everything would be fine if people just stopped spreading rumors about their bad behavior."
"In late June, the temple itself — the largest Reform congregation in the country — sent an email to congregants stating, “This year, antisemitism is on the ballot.” Without naming candidates, the unsigned message concluded, “The Talmud reminds us that our leaders are chosen by us — silence is not a choice we can make right now.” Mailers funded by AIPAC’s United Democracy Project and sent to some voters in Michigan, and circulated online, attacked El-Sayed for his friendship with left-wing streamer Hasan Piker and for his statement after the Temple Israel attack. The mailers accused El-Sayed of having “rationalized a terrorist attack on a Michigan synagogue filled with Jewish children.” (The synagogue preschool was open at the time of the attack.) El-Sayed had condemned the attack, but the mailers accused him of equivocating."
Drew Pavlou responding "Greek people are obviously white" to a post reading "Ben Shapiro says Greeks are not White as he glazes the multiracial cast of The Odyssey (2026)"
Tweet from Arsen Ostrovsky: "For those asking who I’m backing in the World Cup Final: Argentina! Easy choice. And not just because of Messi. One country has stood unequivocally with Israel. The other, Spain, is governed by a sewer of unrestrained antisemitism and appeasement of terror! Vamos, Argentina! 🇦🇷🇮🇱"
From Brad Lander: "While holding multiple truths at once is central to the J Street community, I know how hard it can be – especially right now. Folks on social media are calling me a “kapo” and a “Zionist baby killer” in equal measure. I don’t see that as a sign that I'm doing something wrong – but rather how broken our discourse has become, and how badly we need people in Congress willing to fight for what’s right instead of running from the challenge."
Franz Kafka
"“Sixty million Christians that were killed by Jewish Bolsheviks in the early 1900s right before World War II,” Scheer said in the video. “They don’t tell us the history about Germany before World War II. All we’re told is, ‘Germany bad, Hitler evil, don’t ask questions, Holocaust, Holocaust, Holocaust, here’s 50 movies every year about the Holocaust and why it’s so bad.’”"
"New York Times" headline: "Live Updates: Trump Exaggerates Claims About Election Vulnerabilities in Speech President Trump drew selectively from documents his aides published online to insinuate that U.S. elections have been compromised for years and that government officials had suppressed the evidence."
Post from Mike Rogers: “For the fourth summer in a row, Canada has made its wildfire smoke Michiganders’ problem. The implications are real — and hazardous for you and your family — yet zero accountability for the country that constantly pushes crippling environmental regulations. Canada has to get its act together—and as your Senator, I’ll make sure of it.”
Tweet from Samuel Goldman: "Different objection: has the status of any modern intellectual/literary figure declined more sharply than Freud’s? Consisted one of the greats in the mid 20th C, now of almost solely historical interest."
“Jewish Insider” headline: “Michigan Democrats scramble to avoid a Platner repeat”
Walter Benjamin looking pensive
"But that’s exactly why I stay. X remains unparalleled as a social media site focused on news, comment and discussion with around 570 million monthly active users. What happens if those of us who aren’t driven by hate and who try to use reason rather than gut impulse (or at least like to think we do) leave? The bigots, the bots and the lunatics have the place to themselves. As a relatively prominent Jew, my daily experience is of unrelenting anti-Semitism and abuse. I’ve stopped reporting most of it now to X, which does nothing about it; occasionally I report a threat to the police, if there’s something that specific, such as a mention of where I live. I’ve muted or blocked nearly 4,000 accounts, almost all for anti-Semitism."
From Twitter: "we need a slur for Whites who date jews. i'm thinking shekel sharks or bagel bangers. idk though just spitballing"
Post from Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: “I’m a Jew. The world is my oyster. And I’m part of God’s CHOSEN PEOPLE!”
A sunglasses advertisement reading “The best thing to ever sit on your face”
Tweet from Nadav Pollak: "If there something I can’t stand is Jewish politicians that need to gather votes lecturing Israel on how to deal with its security. Live in Israeli communities in the north or the south for one year and then tell me what Israel should do. You never had to fight for your family safety"
"“I don't think it matters that much anymore — I think anti-Semitism is now, at least in the eyes of a lot of people, no longer seen as a big deal at all,” Piker said. “I think this bigotry has exploded, and a big part of that is because antisemitism has been so cynically deployed and weaponized against all criticisms of Israel — accelerated in the last three years by institutions like the ADL.”"
"Shadows on the wall? Yes, you got it! Well done. But I find it a hard subject to educate myself into. I’ve recently read a couple of books, and I’m really finding it hard. They’re always having so many arguments, these philosophers, and always disagreeing with their masters. I was reading this book on Kant. They’re quite rude to each other and then they have to make up later, and I can’t understand what they’re really talking about. Was Kant a Christian? Was he an atheist? I think it’s cool that you’re reading Kant. Well, it’s all vaguely fashionable."
Post from Nancy Mace saying “Turns out accused rapists don’t make great candidates” with a photo of Graham Platner
From the Chicago Jewish Alliance: “Rahm Emanuel isn’t a kapo. He’s worse.”
Tweet from Lizzy Savetsky: "100% of the Jews I know despise Mamdani. But okay."
Tweet from Lizzy Savetsky: "100% of the Jews I know despise Mamdani. But okay."
Shmuley Boteach and Ben Shapiro feuding about Candace Owens
Tweet from Richard Hanania: "I think this is what most likely happened. Racicot had an unpleasant sexual experience with Platner. She didn't conceptualize it as "rape" or consider it traumatic. He was uninterested in seeing her anymore. The incident gradually grew in importance in her mind. As more allegations came out against Platner, and she saw an opportunity to get revenge on him and get on TV, the incident became worse and worse over time in her head. We see this clearly in the trajectory of her behavior. No contemporary evidence from 2021, as she claims she conveniently deleted all the evidence. Then she had mixed reviews of her relationship with Platner in 2023. Then in 2026, she was supposedly raped in the midst of Platner becoming a celebrity and facing other accusations. This is why you shouldn't get to make accusations years after the fact. You go to the police or you don't. Human memory is too frail to trust years after an event, and we can't give women the power to say whatever they want at any point and ruin a man's life without presenting real evidence."
"On Wednesday night, his campaign released a video in which Mr. Platner suspended his campaign and blamed his loss on the “corporate media system” and “political establishment.” “We did it the right way,” he said. “And we won and now they are not going to let us have it. Not if it’s me.”"
"New York Times" headline: "Does a Sex Assault Claim Kill a Political Career? It Depends. The swift exit of Graham Platner from the Maine Senate race followed Eric Swalwell’s similar exit from the California governor’s race, but Republicans have taken a different tack."
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach saying “This is either a Purim prank or Jews are the dumbest people on earth” to a headline reading: “NEW POLL: Jewish Americans Favor Zohran Mamdani More Than Bibi Netanyahu - by a Whopping 32 Points”
“Wait, hear me out. The gaslighting that society puts us through with our children can be reasonably analogized to the gaslighting that society puts us through with jalapenos. I can explain. Society INSISTS endlessly that the word “jalapeno” is pronounced “hall-uh-peen-yo”, even though all spelling rules and conventions would say that it SHOULD be pronounced “juh-lop-en-oh”. In much the same way, society insists that, not only can my estranged son become a woman, but that he ALREADY IS. This despite CENTURIES of tradition and language demonstrating the opposite - that he is a MAN and MALE and will always be A MAN and was once a BOY. Just the same, “jalapeno” is pronounced “juh-lop-en-oh” when speaking proper english.”
"63% of Jewish-Americans are against the current Israeli government, only a third are in favor. 40% of Jewish-Americans think what happened in Gaza was unjustified and 30% believe it was a genocide. Isn't it weird that you never hear that in the media? If you know those numbers, it takes away the ability of Israel's supporters to claim criticism of the Israeli government is antisemitic. How could nearly two-thirds of Jews in America be antisemitic? Instead the media fans the flames of antisemitism by pretending that everything Israel does is on behalf of all Jews. It's a way of using Jewish people as human shields on behalf of Israel. This isn't about religion or ethnic background. This is about one country who has captured the government and media of another country. And if those abuses drives more people to blame Jews, radical Zionists are willing to live with that."
Tweet from Cenk Uygur: “Some shocking facts about Jewish-Americans on tonight’s episode of @TheYoungTurks. Not overly shocking for me, but I think others will be very surprised. Watch right here or Youtube at 6pm EST.”
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Tweet from Thomas Massie: "Tel Aviv born Miriam Adelson spends hundreds of millions of dollars buying U.S. politicians using Chinese gambling money, then gets the red carpet treatment at our Nation’s 250th birthday celebration, while others suffer in the heat."
“Werner Herzog On John Waters: “I Have The Feeling That This Man Is Gay.””
"Sir: We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large majority. If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery. From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class. The contest for the territories which opened the dire epopee, was it not to decide whether the virgin soil of immense tracts should be wedded to the labor of the emigrant or prostituted by the tramp of the slave driver?"
Tweet from the White House: "You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both."
Tweet from the "New York Post": "Controversial kids YouTuber Ms. Rachel donated to Mamdani cronies who swept NYC Dem primaries in anti-Israel wave"
The 1898 French legislative election
"In a chapter evocatively entitled “On the Slaughter of Children,” Bartov denounces “the extraordinary indifference of Israeli citizens to the months-long mass slaughter of Palestinian civilians, including thousands of children, in Gaza,” an indifference he claims is due to “constant calls for revenge promoted by government officials and army generals, and whipped up by the media” (p. 120). I cannot speak to the content of the dominant Hebrew-language press and media, but such indifference is not apparent in the pages of the English edition of Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, or The Times of Israel. Again, the polemicist offers insufficient and anecdotal evidence to support his accusation of “extraordinary indifference” of the generalized noun “Israeli citizens.” A historian ascribing to “American,” “British,” “German,” or any other national group of citizens any sort of collective guilt would be very cautious; Bartov throws caution to the wind. Israeli leaders certainly declared war with the purpose of defeating Hamas and ending its ability, as its leaders proclaimed, to attack Israel yet again. That is not, however, a call for revenge. The proper term is self-defense, a policy that any state that cared for the life of its citizens would have to adopt."
"But our strong sense of self has complicated Beijing’s efforts to integrate us into the Chinese nation. Its answer is to extinguish what it means to be Uyghur. A Financial Times investigation published in May documented Beijing’s systematic dismantlement of the mechanisms through which Uyghur identity is passed down. This includes taking Uyghur children from their families and sending them to boarding schools where they are forbidden from speaking their mother tongue, and eradicating Uyghur-language publishing and literature. Uyghurs in the diaspora, scattered mostly across the United States, Europe and Central Asia, have responded. Families have launched volunteer-run Uyghur-language schools for our children. Cultural associations keep alive traditions like the meshrep — our vibrant communal gatherings featuring food, song, dance and moral education. Others are assembling online repositories of Uyghur literature, historical documents, photographs and recordings before they disappear. We are not the first people to stand on this precipice. Diaspora Jews helped preserve Jewish identity for centuries; exiled Tibetans are struggling to do the same, as have many other peoples throughout history."
"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a fierce verbal attack against Israel during remarks following a Turkish Cabinet meeting. “We do not take seriously, even in the slightest, the slanders of a criminal gang that has the blood of 73,000 innocent Gazans—the majority of them women and children—on its hands,” the Turkish president declared, responding to the Israeli government’s recent official recognition of the Armenian Genocide. “In our history, there is no genocide, no massacre, no oppression, and no colonialism. Throughout our thousands of years of history, there is only justice and compassion. We offer support to all the oppressed, regardless of their religion, origin, or identity,” Erdogan continued."
A Wider Frame statement on Scott Wiener
“At Freedom Con, more than 4,500 men and boys gathered for masculinity, Christianity and right-wing politics. “Heterosexual, sober men who marry girls and read Bibles, we’re the new punk rock!” a pastor said in a fiery sermon that brought attendees to their feet. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4faLaDz”
"The Trump administration has said it would deny immigration requests for those with antisemitic or “anti-American” posts on their social media accounts, but Mr. Kleinhaus was welcomed even though he had made antisemitic comments on social media. In April 2023, the X user @charlkleinhaus wrote in a now-deleted post that Jews were “untrustworthy” and “a dangerous group” and that “they are not Gods chosen.” Mr. Kleinhaus said his grandmother was Jewish, he was not an antisemitic person and he had written the post in error while he was taking medication for a kidney stone. He also shared other posts that had been written by others. During his processing, he said, he signed off on administration vetting of his social media accounts and no one brought up any problems."
"The title of the film for the Swedish release uses the translation of the name of the play within the story, Springtime for Hitler. As a result of its success, most of Mel Brooks's subsequent films in Swedish were given similar titles, despite being otherwise unrelated: Springtime for Mother-In-Law, Springtime for the Sheriff, Springtime for Frankenstein, Springtime for the Silent Movies, Springtime for the Lunatics, Springtime for World History, Springtime for Space, and Springtime for the Slum.[29] The practice ended by the time Robin Hood: Men in Tights was released, at Brooks's request."